| Free living amoebae inhabit aquatic environments and use phagocytosis of bacteria for their nutrition. According to the hypothesis of coincidental evolution of virulence, the cellular and molecular mechanisms of phagocytosis being preserved from amoebae to the immune cells of animals, the predation exerted by amoebae could favor the emergence of pathogenic bacteria resistant to phagocytosis. Since 2008, Crassostrea gigas oysters have suffered from over-mortality in France. This poly-microbial disease involves the Herpes OsHV-1 μvar virus which causes an immunosuppression of oysters that are then colonized by various opportunistic pathogenic bacteria including vibrios inducing the death of the animal. V. tasmaniensis LGP32 is a facultative intracellular... |
